Lawyers usually think that all the trappings of
traditional firm office space are essential to practicing law and serving clients.
Not exact matches
When companies grow and need a more robust infrastructure, she said, some tech
firms are migrating to
traditional office towers.
Compensation is based on the net profitability of your
office and gross payout is higher than at
traditional full - service
firms.
Full - service
office design & furniture installation
firm, helping businesses transform their
traditional work spaces.
Plus
traditional investment
firms typically have a huge back
office, people pushing paper whose salaries you pay in the form of fees.
Ultimately, I opted for the more
traditional route and named the
firm «The Law
Office of Matthew Hickey,» but use «Music Tech Law» as my url, www.musictechlaw.com and as a slogan on my business card.
Your solo
firm might not have an «
office» in the
traditional sense, but Google and Bing don't understand that.
Young Conaway of Wilmington, DE, and Jaffe PR have won the Promotional / Collateral Materials Announcement category of the 2013 Legal Marketing Association (LMA) Your Honor Award for their public awareness campaign about the law
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First, many
traditional offices, especially in larger law
firms, create barriers to face - to - face collaboration.
Some jurisdictions have held on to the
traditional notion of a brick and mortar law
firm, requiring that lawyers practice out of a physical bona fide
office.
A virtual law
office, or virtual law
firm, is a law practice that doesn't have a
traditional brick - and - mortar
office and largely relies on technology to meet client needs.
The
traditional law
firm model, driven to its logical extreme, is busting its gears and jumping its track at the worst possible time: clients are ready to impose unilateral retainer conditions, competition from non-
traditional law
offices, non-lawyers and overseas lawyers is gathering steam, and technology that can automate, systematize and rationalize law
firm cash cows like due diligence and document review is here.
Two of the most popular methods are 1) a completely web - based virtual law
office providing limited scope representation to online clients or 2) a virtual law
office that has been integrated into the practice management methods of a
traditional law
firm structure.
The shift probably occurred while the
firm opened nine
offices across Canada, which corresponded with a greater emphasis on
traditional corporate law.
By now most attorneys are familiar with virtual law
offices, whether they are completely web - based or integrated into the structure of a
traditional law
firm.
A
traditional firm may choose to have the client sign a separate agreement related specifically to the use of the virtual law
office or client portal or may integrate provisions related to the tech into the existing
firm engagement agreement.
We do have a
traditional office, shared with another law
firm, with standard reception, a boardroom and administrative support on site.
Yet, except for reduction of on - site libraries and excessive filing, many
firms still operate under a
traditional law
firm office concept that has changed very little since the 1980's.
Our two
offices are indispensable for clients and lawyers alike and we maintain the cohesion and focus of the best
traditional firms.
In a virtual
firm, the requirements necessary to maximize productivity as a «traveling lawyer» shrink dramatically when compared to the
traditional IT deployment model, which requires the installation, periodic rebuilding and maintenance of every core application on both individual PCs and separate laptops for out - of -
office travel.
At the time, when the
office opened, which would be
traditional for any
firm opening in a foreign country, they sent in a Canadian resident managing partner.
Kelly Hayes: Correct, I work out of our South Carolina
office and then all of our admin, operations, paralegals, tech people, finance people, all of the sort of «departments» that a
traditional firm would have are housed in the South Carolina
office.
If you visit one of Law
Firm Suites» NYC executive suites, what you will find is a working law
office, not dissimilar from
traditional legal suite.
I had a simple solution to
office gossip and interloping partner problems when I last worked in a
traditional law
firm setting — I closed the door.
Since its inception in 1972, Hughes Hubbard's Washington, D.C.
office has remained rooted in the
firm's
traditional practices — litigation, arbitration and corporate transactions — and has developed regulatory specialties typically found in sophisticated Washington practices.
More and more
firms continue to experiment with hoteling, single - size
offices (to the chagrin of some partners), communal workspaces and locations outside the
traditional «downtown business district.»
The key difference between a virtual
office in New York and a physical
office in a
traditional shared
office space is that, with the former, a
firm pays for
office services on an a la carte basis.
The article, entitled «Unleashed», focuses on the growing trend among law departments, law
firms and technology vendors to have employees working remotely from locations outside of the
traditional office setting.
Many of our clients are no longer able to afford the
traditional billable hour, in -
office rates of even the smaller law
firms and solos.
Whether you are freshly out of law school and admitted to the bar, or have been working in your own
traditional law practice or larger
firm for years, our current technological climate gives you the ability to start, operate, and maintain a virtual law
office in ways that are easier than ever before.
A 21st Century development has been the appearance of the virtual law
firm, a
firm with a virtual business address but no brick & mortar
office location open to the public, using modern telecommunications to operate from remote locations and provide its services to international clients, avoiding the costs of maintaining a physical premises with lower overheads than
traditional law
firms.
Your law
firm name can maintain the
traditional «Law
Offices of My Name» style, but by utilizing a DBA (doing business as or fictitious name), you can really make a statement.
Instead of in a
traditional stand - alone law
office, the law
firm is based out of Platform Space, a co-working space in Bedford.
Advertising - Combine
traditional advertising for the
firm, an
office or a practice group with a web - based strategy, and evaluate the success or failure.
With a
traditional print book in a law
firm library, a user either reads it in the library or signs it out to use in his or her
office.
Innovative
firms are using strategies such as virtual
offices, value pricing, document automation and online legal services to erode the
traditional law
firm client base.
The open
office model, at least as predicated within highly
traditional law
firms, still relies heavily on the concept of face time.
Having worked outside the
traditional law
firm office environment now for nearly seven years, I do look at the hugely expensive property assets (often with one desk for every lawyer, plus all the support infrastructure) and wonder how much cash law
firms could free up by rationalising them.
Most
traditional outplacement
firms spend hundreds of thousands of dollars annually on infrastructure costs such as
office space, computers, and phone lines and pass those costs on to you.
Regional IT Manager • Manage HQ infrastructure team and Asia information technology team, leading 11 staff in the servicing of over 800 users and 9
offices with responsibility for global infrastructure architecture and global network and focus groups • Drive global standardization
firm - wide within networks, storage, backup, servers, computers and other critical hardware • Utilize cross-regional focus groups to connect functional experts between sites, establishing roadmaps, creating annual project plans and delivering global projects • Define incident management and change management processes, working with application teams for full implementation • Create datacenter in ShenZhen technology center to support ASIC team, software team, firmware team, hardware team and sales and FAE teams • Manage high volume of acquisitions and IT integrations on a global scale, including the CSR integration preparation (2011), the Microtune integration (2010), the Letitwave integration in France (2008) and the Emblaze Semiconductor in Israel (2004) • Supervise and lead numerous technology refresh projects including the global Exchange 2010 upgrade, the global MPLS network upgrade, the network switch upgrade, a global firewall project and internet bandwidth upgrade • Execute critical operations functions and projects including global wireless technology management, network monitoring, the global SSL VPN project, the management of Microsoft licenses and the e-mail gateway • Support critical business continuity tasks, including the development of a low - cost Oracle ERP system DR solution, server virtualization, E-mail DR and Perforce DR • Lead cost - saving and expense management endeavors including the build - up of a Quintum VoIP gateway globally to utilize
traditional PBX gateway and the build - up of near - line archive storage with de-duplication technologic
A gradual transformation from an economy led by the
traditional FIRE
firms (finance, insurance and real estate) to the current technology - led trend has forced
office - using companies to update their employee attraction tactics.
He says this was surprising because the lender was an insurance company that typically only finances
traditional office buildings in core markets — like those occupied by law
firms and financial companies — that require minimal improvements when a space turns over.
With
traditional bank financing, the developer takes a huge gamble, said Gary Saul, co-head of the real estate division at law
firm Greenberg Traurig LLP's Miami
office.
Law
firms and financial service companies in particular tend to prefer
traditional office space.
But our major
traditional urban
office tenants — namely attorneys, accountants, banks and real estate
firms — will have to step up to new leases if new buildings are to become a reality.